13-letter words containing h, u, r, l
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- culture clash — a conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- driller’s hut — A driller's hut contains all the controls for the rig floor.
- dual heritage — an upbringing in which one's parents are of different ethnic or religious backgrounds
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- euler-chelpin — Hans (Karl August) von. 1873–1964, Swedish biochemist, born in Germany: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1929) with Sir Arthur Harden for their work on enzymes: father of Ulf von Euler
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
- floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- flutter wheel — a waterwheel at the bottom of a chute, turned by the falling water.
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.